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Jesse A. Criz

Partner
Co-Chair, National REIT Tax Practice

jesse.criz@dlapiper.com

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203 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1900
Chicago, Illinois 60601-1293
United States
T: +1 312 368 4074 F: +1 312 630 6341

Jesse A. Criz is a partner in the Real Estate Capital Markets group of DLA Piper. He represents institutions, investors, developers and entrepreneurial companies in all aspects of the real estate capital markets area, consisting of a wide variety of complex domestic and international real estate, corporate, and partnership transactions, including public and private securities offerings, formation of private real estate funds and all forms of public and private REIT transactions. Mr. Criz also concentrates his practice in the areas of federal and international taxation and the laws affecting business entities.

Mr. Criz has extensive experience in the real estate area, including representation of real estate opportunity funds and publicly traded and privately owned real estate investment trusts (REITs). He has represented sponsor and investors in connection with the formation of many private real estate funds in the US, Europe and Asia. He also has structured and closed many REIT transactions, including REIT mergers and acquisitions, formations of private REITs, partnership roll-ups and UPREIT transactions. In addition, Mr. Criz has structured inbound real estate investments by foreign real estate funds and the formation and establishment of domestic and international real estate funds, including certain funds as private REITs.

Mr. Criz also has extensive experience representing REITs and other real estate owners in structuring and closing real estate joint venture transactions, many of which involve real estate development activities.

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Illinois

Publications

Co-author, "Tax and Structuring Issues for REITs Investing in Infrastructure," TheCorporateCounsel.net (August 2009)
Co-author, "Taxation and Structuring Issues for REITs Investing in Non-US Assets," Journal of International Taxation (January 2009)

EDUCATION

J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law 1998 cum laude

Recipient, Hugh L. Dick Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance in Taxation
B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1995 with honors
Certified Public Accountant
Illinois